Simone Signoret has her hair done in her Beverly Hills hotel room, while her husband Yves Montand (centre) plays cards hours before the Academy Awards in 1960. She would win best actress for Room at the Top

1958: Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster with choreographer Jack Cole, practicing a mock-bitter song-and-dance number called "It's Great Not to Be Nominated"; the tune ribbed many of the year's Oscar contenders.

The great, inimitable Charlie Chaplin -who had been living in self-imposed exile in Switzerland for two decades - blows a kiss to the crowd while accepting an honorary Oscar in 1972 for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century." When he was introduced to the audience, Chaplin received a 12-minute standing ovation.

At the 1942 Academy Awards, Joan Fontaine gazes at the Best Actress Oscar she won for her role in Suspicion — an achievement that made her, incredibly, the only actor or actress to ever win an Oscar for a performance in an Alfred Hitchcock film.

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images credit www. Music Ringo Starr - Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing: The song was publicized first in the movie, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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